Thought this might be interesting to those who are interested in some of the more esoteric early uses of laserdisc. What was the first laserdisc computer game? While researching early "interactive movie" games a long time ago, I ran across this article:
Adventures in Videoland, originally published in the January 1982 issue of Creative Computing. Given publishing lead times, this means that the game was done (and probably on newsstands) in 1981. Gather an Apple II, a proper laserdisc player and interface, a copy of
Rollercoaster (1977) [11-009], type in the program listed after the article, and you get the first published laserdisc game.
As a disclosure, I added this info to Wikipedia's relevant articles ages ago when I first ran across this information, so it's possible that the few here that would be interested in such things would already be aware of this. Frustratingly, one other neat bit of info --
Quarter Horse beat Astron Belt to market as the first laserdisc arcade game by several months in 1982 -- keeps getting edited out of Wikipedia articles, perpetuating the misinformation that Astron Belt was the first.
Thanks list
